Eilat Mazar The Stepped Stone Structure in the City of David in Light of the New Excavations in Area G

Moshe Garsiel The Elah Valley's Battle, the Duel of David's and Goliath and Why Goliath's Head and Weapons End Up in Jerusalem

Avraham Faust Sennacherib's Campaign to the Judean Highlands and Jerusalem: A New Perspective

Tsvika Tsuk "And Brought the Water to the City" (2 Kings 20, 20): Water Consumption in Jerusalem in the Biblical Period

Discussion Break

Special Discussion- 10:50-11:40

Shlomo Bunimovits & Avraham Faust The Archaeology of the Biblical Period in the Twenty-First Century: Towards a New Dialogue between Archaeology and the Bible

Discussion Break

Session 2 – 12:00- 13:50 Chair: Ben-Zion Rozenfeld

Joseph Patrich On the Chamber Called House of Stone (beth even), Which was Facing the Northeast Corner of the Temple Building (birah) (Mishnah, Parah 3:1)

Michael Ben-Ari Recollections of the Temple: Between Yavne and Lod and Between the Ideal and the Real

Ehud Netzer How to Handle the Different Reconstructions of the Temple and its Surrounding Courts

Joshua Schwartz The Temple Cult Without the Sages: Prolegomena on the Description of the Second Temple Period Cult according to Sources of the Second Temple Period

Yehoshua Peleg The Pre-Herodian Sanctified Temple Area and Outer Court.

Discussion Lunch Break

Session 3 – 14:50-17:00 Chair: Hanan Eshel

Eyal Baruch The Palatial Mansion in Jerusalem: Class and Ideology

Yuval Shahar The Concept of the Temple Mount in the Second Temple Period

Ram Bouchnick, Nimrod Marom & Guy Bar-Oz "Rams from Moab and Ewes from Hebron": Herd Maintenance Strategies in the Late Second Temple Period in Jerusalem

Zachi Zweig New Information from Various Temple Mount Excavations from the Last Hundred Years

Yair Talmor Between the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Nea Church - The Religious Space of Byzantine Jerusalem

Discussion Break

Session 4 - 17:20- 19:10 Chair: Yvonne Friedman

Peretz Reuven "A Female Slave from the Harem Who Became the Mother of the Caliph": a Suggestion to Connect an Unknown inscription from the Al-Aqsa Mosque to the Mother of the Abbasid Caliph Al- Muqtadir."

Nissim Dana The Prophet Mohammad's Night Ascent to Heaven: A Review of the Passage in the Qur'an and in Other Islamic Sources

Shelomo Lotan The Symbolism of Jerusalem and the House of King David in the Teutonic Military Order Medieval Heritage

Josef Drory The Contribution of Franciscan Documents for Esteem of the Local Minorities' Rights in Mamluk Jerusalem

Oded Shay The Beginning of Historical Documentation and Modern Archives of the General Population in Jerusalem at the End of the Ottoman Period

Discussion

The conference proceedings (app. 400 pp. including 2 articles in English and 20 articles in Hebrew, with English abstracts) will be on sale during the conference.